Karina couldn't help but stop and think for a second about how she did indeed kill the last behemoth. That was her last strike was no where near strong enough to take down the rest of it's remaining health. It was sloppy and she wasn't even aiming for it's weak point, instead she just slashed randomly at it's side. Plus with the amount of power it must have been getting from feeding off her emotions she didn't think taking her down would be that hard, unless.... She had overloaded it. That was it, all her emotions and everything as much as they where getting too much for her, they where also becoming too much for the heartless to handle. especially in it's low health, all it needed was that one hit to push it over the edge, that one hit from her. For once her negative emotions did something good even though it left her feeling crappy after. She she had smiled at Stratos but it wasn't real. Her heart was heavy with emotions and her mind spinning with thoughts. However having to deal with this ambush helped her set them aside long enough to continue fighting, but for how much longer was anyone's guess. Her emotions where so off and on this battle, so out of control that one couldn't say when her mind would start to break again and she would lose the will to fight once again like she had before. Fear drove her through the behemoth fight, now what was the drive behind this one? It was to protect the only one in that room who seemed to care for her even in the slightest. She wouldn't consider him a friend yet but he was proving to be a loyal comrade. Time to get back to the battle. As one of the monkey's jumped at Karina she blocked it's attack and then pushed hit away with her keyblade before turning and quickly repeating the process with a second power wild. There where a group of then power wilds immediately surrounding Karina, others where off to the side or attacking Stratos. She couldn't take them all out at once but she could sure as hell try to take out as many as possible. To start off her fight she decided to go with a simple attack to take out the first already injured power wild. But Karina couldn't continue a combo due to one of the sneaky little monkey's attempting to attack to attack her from behind. Karina turned around and started to slash at that heartless taking it out before it could hit her. But this left an opening for a third to attack, an opening that it did indeed take. After almost trying to kick her, which was nothing but a tickle compared to the behemoths it started to climb on her back and beat her. Karina reached over her shoulder, grabbing the heartless and throwing it to the ground before she stabbed it through the chest with her keyblade. The fun did not end here either however. A fourth decided to stick it's nose where it didn't belong and also attack Karina from the side. Karina caught this with the corner of her eye a spun around with her keyblade out so she would catch the heartless on it. She stopped spinning and let it fly at a fifth power wild. Karina then walked over to the two and started a basic combo attack hitting both numerous times taking them out. That was five down leaving five to go... for now. Before Karina could think of taking them on she first needed to catch her breath even in the slightest. Words: 616 Exp: 30 Total: 1170 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 21/50 Injuries:
Karina didn't even have the energy to fight back or try to ignore Stratos's comments. She was left with no other choice but to sit there, on the ground and listen to his speech. He had made similar comments through this fight but Karina never paid all that much attention. Why? Because frankly she didn't believe it. She didn't believe why anyone would want to save her or protect her, she didn't believe even as just a comrade she was worth it. Why would she be? Her mind was always full of doubt especially when it came to something about people being nice to her. She was not used to people being nice to her for more than a few minutes before backing off cause they want nothing to do with her and her personality, or they react badly to Karina's bad attitude and she chases them away. Either way she was not used to people being nice to her or worrying about her and the fact Stratos was raised a lot of doubts in Karina's mind. On the other hand everything that Stratos was saying about her was true. The fact if someone didn't worry about her she would get herself killed. She would run into things blindly and hope from the best. She didn't plan because frankly she didn't value her own life and didn't care if it came to an end. If someone else wanted to care what came of her life then so be it, but she didn't. However at times when people showed that they did truly care, she could occasionally calm herself enough to think at least somewhat rationally, or at least find something worth living for even if it was for only a short while longer. With Stratos finishing his speech and casting cure, Karina forced herself to her feet once again, picking up her keyblade in her hand. Looking at it she knew that she didn't deserve to wield it, but she would anyhow, if for nothing else to protect the one person here that seemed to care in the slightest for her. He had saved her more than once now, talked her out of one of her depressed states and constantly supported her, she had to keep fighting if nothing else because she was someone with slight honor and if she owed someone something she planned to repay them and right now she owed Stratos for a lot. Karina simply nodded at Stratos unable to bring herself to say anything to him. She wasn't done here not yet, not until everyone was safe. Out of nowhere Karina threw her keyblade at heartless that where coming up behind Stratos. It seemed she was not paying attention up to that point but clearly she was. Karina then charged forward to finish the two behind him off. Damn monkey's where annoying and they wouldn't stop moving making Karina's job a lot more difficult but not impossible. Using a barrier surge to get to a third it only took a few attacks in order to take that one out. That was a few attacks on top of the barrier surge, she did hit with that one. Karina then turned to a forth and jumped on it quickly taking it out as well. Brushing her hands off she still had a slight amount of bp left, not enough to take out anything but to injure one more of them, and that was what she would do. throwing another strike raid across the room Karina hit one of the other power wilds before her keyblade returned to her. She gave stratos a slight smile almost to say thank you as she took a step back to recharge. Words: 620 Exp:30 Total: 1140 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 9/50 Injuries: Power Wild: 3/5 Power Wild: 3/5
Despite being hit with numerous jets of water Karina came out relatively dry. The heat was so intense that it evaporated a lot of the water pretty quickly. The steam hurt slightly but not as much as remaining in the heat with none of that water being sprayed at her, Damn was that heat hot. It was almost surprising that both her and stratos where surviving. Although it was almost dead and she would be the one to deliver the last hit. As Karina thought about how she would finish the behemoth she watched as Stratos and Dumbo fight. Stratos was not that strong but he seemed to have a sound mind and knew what he was doing. He was proving that he could get the job done. Suddenly Karina was drawn away from her planning as she watched a firaga hot stratos and Dumbo. They both seemed worse for ware despite stratos looking at her as to say he was okay. An extreme sense of guilt filled Karina as she filled with even more anger and sadness. She just wanted to protect her comrades and she couldn't. Karina charged forward out of sheer ange, sadness and anxiety. She wasn't thinking and didn't know of she was going to be killed by what she was doing but she wasn't going to stop. The heat was so intense as she ran forward she didn't know how long she could last, but she kept going. One single slash and the behemoth burst into flames before disintegrating into a pile of ashes. Karina stumbled, being tired and hot, she didn't think she could stand much longer, but she didn't have a choice. Looking to her right she saw stratos getting ambushed. Her original plan was to heal both of them before taking a break for a moment but that was out the door, now she had to continue protecting her ally. Karina barely had time to think before she rushed in pushing Stratos out of the way and barely getting guard off in time to protect herself from at least some of the heartless. Adrenaline seemed to boost her defense for her to last through everything she did. It took great effort for Karina to share the heartless off her and stand once again but at least Stratos was out of the way. After the behemoths last attack she didn't think he was doing very well, after all he hadn't healed or anything since. That didn't mean she could take it any better, but she wasn't going to stand by and watch him die when his current injuries where her fault. Karina didn't end with just taking the power Wilds hits. She had to make them fear her as well. Charging forward Karina focused on two of them using just plain attacks to take out both. She gave the others a death glare before slowly backing off. These where not that difficult to kill but there where a lot of then to deal with which wasn't fun. They could do it, she knew that, she just wished they didn't have to. Karina then turned to stratos and pointed her keyblade at him. "Cure." She said softly ad she let off a green light that soon hit Stratos. Karina then dropped her keyblade to the ground as she fell to her knees, the pain and exhaustion of the last battle was catching up to her. The power wild attack didn't help either. "I-I am not going to give up here. Don't worry about me... Worry about them." Karina pointed to the heartless that seemed full of life and ready to attack them again. Words: 609 Exp:30 Total: 1110 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 2/50 Aggro: ALL THE POWER WILDS
Just the heat wore Karina out. Standing back she wiped The sweat off her forehead and tried to catch her breath. The behemoth was something else, that was for sure. She had not seen anything like it before and it was certainly a dangerous thing to br tangling with especially with her being... Well her. Happy and calm where not her strong suites as much as she wished they where. It would have made the battle a whole lot easier, but that was not what her personality was like, she couldn't just change who she was even of it could save them. It was then that Stratos came over to talk to her. Before he even said anything a wave if anxiety washed over her. If stratos was by her and Satan got near them he would have to endure the full force of the behemoth. He then spoke of it getting stronger asbthe fight went on like it was getting more powerful as it got more desperate, but that wasn't true. "You don't get it! It is more powerful because I can't control my emotions! I know I shouldn't run in blindly but do you know how hard it is to plan when you can't clear your mind? You can't be near me, it draws close! Just leave me!" Karina yelled at stratos in a tone that was a mix of anger and anxiety. She feared that with her there with Stratos that Stratos would not he prepared or a full force attack and it end with his blood on her hands. Karina took a deep breath as she started to walk forward. She would keep the behemoth as far away as possible herself. But she couldn't do it without stratos, she would need his help from a distance. "Stay there Stratos but I need you to do me a favour. Aim that elephant of yours at me. Spray me. And don't worry about the damage it might do, it would he less than if I over heated and fell victim to this behemoth. Trust me on this one." She instructed as she git closer to the behemoth and started to feel it's heat. Karina took her time approaching, jumping over each if the fiery circles that radiated on the floor. Karina took one last deep breath before jumping up at the horn relying back on one of her earlier plans. She started with an aerial combo. Coming down from that she landed on her keyblade glider and shot herself into the air so she. Could come down on the heartless. All the while she relied on Stratos to keep her cool so that the heat wouldn't get too intense to stand. Karina soon turned around and leaped from her keyblade glider into a vorpal blitz. From there she shot off a blizzard spell which did minimal damage butbshot her back away from the behemoth. Karina once again summoned her keyblade glider to getaway on. Getting away was not as simple as it seemed however since she was not wanting to go back by stratos fir his own good. Instead of heading away from the behemoth Karina had to head towards it and past it to the safety that was on the other side. Karina kept her glider close to the ground as she attempted to make her get away. She dodged between a few step of the behemoth attempting to stomp on her. But that was not the only thing she was avoiding. There was the fire balls and death lasers they needed to be avoided too. With some difficulty she was able to Dodge and narrowly avoid the attacks until she was to a decently safe place . That would only last so long however but it did give stratos an opening to attack. Words: 636 Exp: 30 Total: 1080 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 29/300
Karina felt like she wanted to cry, scream, and run in fear all at the same time, but she did none of that, she simply stood still. Her mind was crying out for help but her body didn't move, her voice didn't make a noise. Her mind was getting more dark the more she tried not to let it. She was putting everyone in danger by this, but she couldn't help it. She wanted to curl up in a ball in the corner and wait this out, but she couldn't. She couldn't rely on Stratos all the time. She had been relying on him far to much throughout this battle, to protect her and to do a lot of the word despite the fact he was not as strong and could do less, he had been fighting far more then she had, he mind was so full of negative that she was having trouble staying fighting the heartless, especially in this amount. Normally fighting was pretty easy, it was how she took out all her anger that at times she had to hold in or not go as all out as she felt she needed to. But what happens after she passed that stage of releasing her anger? She could still fight, but without the anger she had become so accustom to that hid her sadness, she was forced to feel everything that was supressed deep down, and with that fighting became a lot harder. Especially in this fight. Satan fed off both her anger and her sadness, she couldn't supress her sadness with anger like she generally did in order to fight and prevent the heartless from becoming stronger, because that was exactly what she would be doing, feeding the heartless to become stronger. Then how was she to fight this fight. With all these thoughts and questions swirling in her head Karina didn't realize how long she had just been standing there doing nothing at all. Stratos was able to get numerous attacks in and he didn't bother to try to pull her out of her fazed out state, he simply kept fighting, like he would do it himself if he had to. If it was any other enemy she would have told him off for that, but with this one she couldn't. How could she blame him for wanting to fight without her, she was only feeding the behemoth, making it more dangerous. Never the less she had to help, she couldn't just stay away from it, she couldn't not do anything to help. "Stratos back off I am not out of this yet." She ordered him, fearing the worst as she could feel her emotions stronger the more she thought about not feeling them. Karina only took a few step forward when a small explosion sent her stumbling back. Looking down to see what she had set off small remnants of a mushroom was scattered around her feet. What the hell this thing was no yordle. It was quite the opposite actually. Shaking off the explosion Karina used her keyblade glider to close the gap in order to avoid any more of those invisible mushrooms. As she neared the behemoth Karina did a back flip off her glider using her feet to push it forward more into the behemoth. Karina landed on the ground as her glider collided with the beast. She watched as her glider hit the ground and transformed back into a keyblade that she could then summon to start her next set of attacks, although what those where she didn't quite know yet. Karina kind of just simply charged forward blindly and started to attack the behemoth, sometimes at it's foot and sometimes jumping up and attacking it's horn. However the heat it gave off seemed stronger then before and quickly made Karina have to retreat, she couldn't endure it any longer, at least for now. That wouldn't stop Karina from coming back. She was still in this fight. Words: 666 Exp: 30 Total:1050 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 68/300
"Calm down, you can do this, don't worry. More you worry the worse it will be. Just keep yourself calm and he will be less powerful he will be. It is your own anger and despair feeding him so keep it to a minimum. You can do this.... Who are you kidding, you can't do this, you where never good at keeping your cool, this is why you always got in so much trouble with dad.... No stop it you have to be strong. But I am not strong.... That is why I need to learn, now is a good time to practice. Just think happy thoughts.... Well that would be a lot easier if I had happy thoughts to thing.... Ugh no don't talk like that it is nagetive it will feed Satan. Great now I am getting frustrated and it only makes things worse.... I am such a screw up...." These where the thoughts that crowded Karina's mind as she stood away from the Behemoth so Stratos wouldn't get hurt more because of her. Karina stood with an emotionless expression on her face not really showing the struggle she was having internally. Thoughts like this often crowed Karina's mind it was getting worse when she was trying not to let them, mainly because she was trying to suppress part of her personality and that didn't work so well, and when it didn't it only made her mad or disappointed in herself. Her mind was stuck in an endless loop of depression and anger. The behemoth seemed to sense this struggle Karina was having because instead of going after the retreating Stratos who had just attacked it, it was heading towards her. Karina stood with her knees shaking slightly, between the fear she had for this particular behemoth, and the struggle with her emotions she couldn't help it. A ball of fire came flying in Karina's direction but she was not that out of it that she would let this thing kill her. Dodge rolling out of the way her legs got singed a little bit but not bad enough to stop her from doing anything. She couldn't afford to stop even if she could. This thing was too dangerous to just stop no matter what happened to her or anyone else. She couldn't let Satan live. Even if it killed her it would just find someone else to feed off of. She wasn't the only one with Negative emotions, she was the one with the most obvious ones though and one of the strongest at that too. That didn't mean Satan wouldn't find someone else, there was always someone else. "I won't let you defeat me so you can hurt someone else.... I won't..." Karina said quietly as she started charging towards the heartless. Jumping high in the air Karina used Barrier surge in the air so she could reach and connect to the horn of the behemoth. She then started hacking and slashing at the horn as much as she could before she started to descend from the sky, after all it wasn't like she could fly, and standing on this thing was not an option. As soon as Karina hit the ground she unleashed a series of upward slashes pushing the behemoth into the air. She then jumped up after it. "Look out!" Karina hollered as she flipped in the air and brought her keyblade down on the heartless's back making it crash the the ground. Karina then herself slowly descended to the ground. It didn't take long for Karina to transform her keyblade and hop on the glider to make her get away. It wasn't safe to stay near it for too long, besides it was Stratos's turn. Words: 623 Exp: 30 Total: 1120 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 141/300
From a distance Karina watched as Stratos fight the behemoth, seemingly trying to drew the aggro away from her. Even though he distracted the Behemoth for a few seconds, it wasn't long before it turned back to her and slowly started it's approach toward her, it's slow fiery approach. It was taking far too much time to get to her so instead of waiting Karina went to it. Rushing her keyblade glider forward she was planning to crash it into the behemoth's head. This might be dangerous considering that the behemoth was fricken almost on fire, after all it could like burn someone upon touch, especially when it was near Karina. She hated herself for feeding it's power but this hate only made it more powerful, and then in started an endless cycle in which she couldn't escape due to the fact she couldn't calm herself. This would not turn out well so she was getting ready to heal right away, she would need it. Karina started her plan charging at the Behemoth. Colliding with it Karina went flying off the gliding and crashing to the ground. Letting out a groan she picked herself up and summoned her keyblade back to her, Now it was time to finish the fight but not before casting cure on herself and then Stratos across the room. Now it was time for her to go and actually attack and stuff like that so she could finish getting the post done. Karina leaped into the air and then started the same thing as the last time. Landing on the ground Karina charged forward at the heartless using a barrier surge to block the flaming circles that spread from around wherever the heartless stepped. Now at the base of it's foot Karina started to cast blizzard on each of it's feet in an attempt to stop the flame circles. She then took a couple steps back to give her room to jump straight up preparing to hit the behemoth in the face. d. With that Karina started to unleash her aerial combo once again, this time followed up by splatter combo before the vorpal blitz. As she started to descend from the behemoths face she transformed her keyblade into a glider and took off. Karina flew straight up out of the way of the heartless this one lucky enough could not jump but she had to dodge quite a few fire balls that came her way. Each one she was able to dodge but Karina was getting more frustrated. A loud roar shook Karina's glider as she tried to get away allowing room for Stratos to attack once again. She could hear the footsteps of the behemoth as she got away, it was a good thing it was slow or else Stratos would not have had time to attack before she was close enough to feed the behemoths power. Standing away from the behemoth Karina kept trying to calm herself, She slowed her breathing trying to calm the anger although even with that she was still miserable. No matter how calm she was in the back of her mind she was miserable and the heartless fed off of it and nothing anyone could say or do would change her misery, so she had to defeat it before it got too powerful. The more the battle went on the more Karina couldn't help but get angered by it's stupid moves, but the more she got angered by the stupid moves the more stupid moves he could do, because the more powerful he got because Karina was angry. Words: 600 Exp: 30 Total: 990 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 180/300
Stratos was using a lot of powerful attacks on Satan yet it still hated Karina the most for some unknown reason. What was it about her that he hated? Perhaps it was because of how she was feeling? Sure she was the one to aggro it first but with all the moves that Stratos was using you would think he would turn his attention towards him. But of course that was it. If this heartless truly was Satan then it would stand to reason that it was attracted to negativity in thoughts, feelings and attitude. Everything about Karina was a Satan magnet. Her misery is what brought this heartless to life and fed it's fire, literally. Like whenever it got closer to her it seemed to heat up more and the flame circles grew wider. Just another reason for Karina to hate herself, but she couldn't think of that now. She couldn't allow herself to get more depressed and distracted again. That would only feed Satan more and mean definite death for her, there was no escaping that fate if she got distracted. Karina stared straight into Satans eyes as she felt it drill into her soul, shaking her to the core. Karina certainly was no angel but she knew she had to beat this demon anyhow, even if she herself was considered a demon. After all it wasn't a long shot. This would turn into a fight between Satan and a demon, but one of them almost wanted to change their fate. She couldn't live a life of a demon forever, especially if it turned her into that. Sure it was strong, like the strength that she strived to achieve, however this came at the cost of any hope of escaping her lonely fate. Looking into the behemoths eyes she was frightened by it but at the same time saw a small amount of reality in it's eyes, the lonely tormented soul that lay beneath, She almost pitied the heartless... Almost, it was still going to die and it was still just a heartless. She saw a soul but what soul did a heartless have. maybe she was just seeing what she wanted to see. Wanted or needed, Karina was unsure. And what was with these life lessons in the middle of battle just to fill time. Karina needed to be fighting Satan not be doing some soul searching. With that Karina charged forward at the heartless using a barrier surge to block the flaming circles that spread from around wherever the heartless stepped. Now at the base of it's foot Karina started to cast blizzard on each of it's feet in an attempt to stop the flame circles. She then took a couple steps back to give her room to jump straight up preparing to hit the behemoth in the face. Just before she started her attack sequence she called out to Stratos. "Stay away from it when I am near! The closer I am the more power it has. Wait until I fly away before attacking again.... please." Karina instructed with a small attempt to be at least slightly polite at the end. With that Karina started to unleash her aerial combo once again, this time followed up by splatter combo before the vorpal blitz. As she started to descend from the behemoths face she transformed her keyblade into a glider and took off, narrowly avoiding the heartless's fire laser beam attack that it tried to use again. A loud roar shook Karina's glider as she tried to get away allowing room for Stratos to attack once again. She could hear the footsteps of the behemoth as she got away, it was a good thing it was slow or else Stratos would not have had time to attack before she was close enough to feed the behemoths power. Words: 641 Exp: 30 Total: 960 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 219/300
The Behemoth, Satan made quick work of shooting Stratos away from him and returning his focus to Karina. Despite her barely doing any damage to him, he seemed the most pissed at her. Why? Because she was the first to disturb him from his calm sleep like state. She was going to be the one forced to deal with it's wrath. Satan always kept it's eyes on her even when attacking Stratos, it's fiery red eyes. The behemoth didn't take long before it continued it's slow but threatening approach towards her. The fire around it's feet spreading wider with each step. The other heartless parted ways for the Behemoth. They didn't seem to care to mess with this fight, they all feared Satan and didn't dare stand in his way or attack his target. Karina was this behemoths prize if he managed to take her down but on the other hand the behemoth was Karina's prize if or when she took him down. That would however first require finding the fire again to fight something this big. Her sloppy unorganized fighting style wouldn't cut it here with this things sheer strength. Karina was strong sure, but not as strong as that thing, plus on top of that it had magic. It had fricken strong fire magic, one that could be felt across the room. The Behemoth didn't blink as it got close to Karina. He simply looked at her then shot a fiery laser from it's horn at Karina. Karina was forced to snap out of her fear and zoned out state. If she didn't she would be a pile of ashes in mere seconds. But luckily for her she was able to snap out and dodge roll out of the way just in the nick of time. Now Karina was on the run. She didn't get on her glider because first of all she didn't need it to out run Satan. And second she wanted to keep her keyblade on hand at all times just in case she needed to block. And at any second she might need to guard against another of it's stupid attacks that it undoubtedly had. She needed to find an opening to attack but where. The entire thing had heat emanating off it meaning if she landed on it, she would most likely be burned. No bare handing this thing, that would be a very bad idea. Karina's fear was what kept her focused on the battle, but despite that same fear she was able to stop and turn around waiting for the behemoth to get closer. As soon as the behemoth got close enough that the fire circle around it's feet would hit her Karina used high jump to leap far in the air. She started a aerial combo including aerial sweep, before following that up with a vorpal Blirz. Karina landed but only let her feet rest on the ground for a second before pushing off again and starting an aerial slam combo on the behemoth. Finishing that Karina turned back around to run. Her hands where shaking more then they had been before, her body felt completely numb, as did her mind. In this state of fear numbing her mind was a good thing because the fear focused her and the numbed mind took her thoughts off the horrible, dark, depression thoughts that brought the lack of motivation and distractions that she was going through earlier. She knew it would return as soon as the battle was over but until that time she let her fear and adrenaline drive. Word: 611 Exp: 30 Total: 930 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 258/300
Karina continued to hack and slash at the heartless in her sloppy unsure fashion as soon as she caught her breath. Stratos seemed to have drawn the aggro once again, most likely for her sake. She felt bad about it, because of her current condition he was having to be chased around and possibly hurt to keep her safe... For some reason he was trying to keep her safe still. Stratos did tell her before why he had protected her, but at this point most would have given up on her, and she expected nothing less. As much as it hurt to admit but she almost expected people to give up on her, when they didn't it seemed weird to her and she didn't know what to think. The first thought that came to her mind was that he liked her, but she quickly shook that thought off, no one would like her especially with her attitude, especially now.... Perhaps he was just extortionately soft hearted. Whatever the reason she couldn't decide if she was grateful or almost annoyed by his help. As much as he saved her life, Karina started to question if her life, and the lives of those around her would be better if she was at peace through death. Karina was so zoned out and caught in her own thoughts she didn't realize that she was attacking the feet of a behemoth. Karina cursed under her breath as she slowly backed away from it scared of what this one would be like. The last one was bad enough she could only imagine what this one would be like. It seemed to not notice her yet so Karina felt slightly better. Seeing she was clear she decided to chase after Stratos and take out the remaining two heartless on his tail. They didn't seem that strong at this point so she was sure that she could take them without a problem. Well without a problem assuming she could focus enough to do so. Approaching the first one she jumped into the air and came down on it with a vorpal blitz. With another couple hits it was dead, very little problem. It was now time for the second one. Karina closed the distance with a barrier surge. She followed that up with the six hit combo known as splatter combo. Well that was that for those two. Finally Karina and Stratos had a breather.... ......Or at least Stratos did. Glancing back at the behemoth that she had been accidentally attacking earlier Karina noticed it staring at her. This was not a normal stare either nor was it a blank stare like the behemoth earlier. No this behemoth was staring at her with glowing red satanic eyes. The beast had it out from her, that was clear. Karina only wondered what this ones attacks would be like, considering how Derpy the Derpmoth attacked, it wasn't a long shot that this one would be stupid as well. Each step that the Behemoth took towards her seemed to shake the floor. Small rings of fire surrounded each foot as it hit the ground. Opposed to the last one this behemoth was slow, he also didn't step very high meaning he probably was not going to do stupid aerial stunts like the first one. But there was something about this one that scared her a lot. A loud roar almost blew Karina off her feet as the behemoth snarled at her with sharp teeth that looked ready to eat her. As the heartless snarled smoke came out of its nostrils. Looking closely at it's tusks they where curved up like devils horns. Through the epic stare down between Karina and the behemoth something suddenly became very clear. This was no ordinary behemoth.... no.... Karina was not sure that this was a behemoth at all. From the look in it's eyes it couldn't possibly be a heartless. No, this was indeed Satan in the body of a Behemoth. Words: 666 Exp: 30 Total: 900 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 10/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 297/300
The emotional wreck of a girl stood and watched as Stratos finished off Derpy the Derpmoth. She planned to step in a do a few damage to help finish the battle more quickly but still allowing Stratos to get the final hit, but Stratos was too quick in finishing it for her to do anything considering the only pace Karina could bring herself to move was slow. Something that was not good in battle but there was not much that could be done about it. Heartless still surrounded the two of them but less where attacking right now. They where slowly bringing down the numbers and having some room to breath without a heartless attacking every few seconds. And thankfully now because of Stratos, without Derpy appearing out of no where and messing with the fights, getting in the way and hurting them, and when she said hurt she meant damn like really hurt sometimes. Being kicked into book cases was not pleasant, especially with all the injuries already pertained. To be fair half of them were her own fault when she gave up on fighting but still, injuries where injuries, they still hurt and no matter how many times Stratos cured her she would keep getting more. Karina looked at Stratos and then back to the heartless. Instead of barking orders, or suggestions like she usually did, she kept quiet. Karina was in no talking mood right now, she was not in the fighting mood either but that was something she didn't get a choice about. It was clear from her facial expression she was not happy, and that she was slightly zoned out, but still she stood as though she was ready to fight. Karina quickly glanced at many scars on her arms before looking back up ready for the fight. She had forgot she had them in the heat of the battle, and now without anything to cover them she felt a little embarrassed and disappointed. It wasn't that they where self inflicted, but she never wanted to show how horrible her home life could get, because as she had told Glen before her father was a respectable man and though people from outside her culture might not understand she knew he deserved the respect he got and didn't want anyone looking down on her, no matter how bad things got between her and him. After all every scar and every painful memory was brought on by herself. She knew that. The fact that she couldn't return home was her fault as well, so with that being said she didn't want anyone getting after him, but at the same time she didn't want anyone knowing too much about her, she would rather be lonely without friends then reveal the true details about herself and her past. Finally Karina stepped up to fight. She hoped if both her and Stratos kept moving he wouldn't notice them. However this didn't help when it came to after the battle, but that was a bridge to be crossed when it came to it. For now she had to keep moving, keep fighting, and keep herself distracted. Karina charged at a random assault rider. At this point it didn't matter what order she did it in, they would all meet the same end from her and Stratos. With little skill but lots of slashes Karina took out an assault rider, quickly casting cure on herself right after seeing that she didn't bother with any dodging or guarding against that assault rider. Feeling slightly better Karina went after a second. It wasn't long though till she was out of breath and had to step back momentarily. These heartless required a lot more effort and slowly her endurance was wearing down due to the shear amount of heartless. She needed breaks more often but still Karina got the job done, just not all in one go. Words: 652 Exp: 30 Total: 870 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 10/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: 1-Assault Rider 7/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 15/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15
Karina stood across the room staring down the Assault rider that she started to attack before Derpy the Derpmoth so rudely interrupted her. Oh how she wished that Stratos would deal with the heartless he aggroed so she could deal with the Behemoth. She had some pay back to do, but on the other hand, so did Stratos. Derpy did hate him far more then he hated her, it kept kicking him around. She it got a few kicks in on her, but soon after it always went back to Statos. Come to think of it Stratos was not being given much of an opportunity to fight these other heartless, so perhaps it was fair that she handled them. Or perhaps she could help Stratos finish off the Behemoth then they both worry about the assault riders, but seeing as how the behemoth was on so low health already Karina decided it would be a better use of her time to just take on the heartless and leave the Behemoth to Stratos to finish off. He had worked so heart do deserve it after all so may as well throw him a bone once and a while, he WAS being surprisingly nice through her emotional breakdown after all. Karina took a deep breath, attempting to suppress feelings and pull herself together before hopping back on her keyblade glider and racing towards the heartless that she had started taking out before Derpy showed up and decided to be a dick and kick her across the room. "I can do this... I can keep myself together a little longer. I was fine before during all the words and fights... so why now?" Karina's pep talk to herself quickly changed into questioning her own mental health. It was definitely something she would have to sort out eventually, something she planned to do on her own. Asking for help was something that Karina rarely thought of doing and never thought of when it came to her mental health. That was something that she had to work out on her own, she always thought it that way and never wanted to share anything that had to do with the cause of her mental state or even about herself. She didn't think people needed to know nor did she ever want to burden people with the knowledge and details. figuring out her mental state was something for her to do herself, but not now, not in the middle of battle. Later she would find a place to lock herself in and think.... Well that is if they had anywhere to go after this. Karina neared the heartless. It was time to actually fight and not continue thinking and contemplating her life. Lowering her keyblade glider as close to the ground as it could go before stepping off in front of the seriously injured assault rider. Karina's eyes where stern as she began to fight, but at the same time that she was serious she was also zoned out. Even with that she was able to take out the weakened heartless. Karina then turned to another. This one was also injured but not by much. Karina had to focus slightly more to take out this one, dodge some attacks and be slightly tactful, but in the end she was still pretty zoned out and fighting rather sloppily. Karina finished that heartless off with a strike raid which also happened to hit another assault rider just behind the first one. It was barely a scratch to that one, but any little thing helped. The more damage she could get done to any of the heartless really, the better it was for them. Words: 614 Exp: 30 Total: 840 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 9/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 37/300 1-Assault Rider 11/15 2-Assault Rider 15/15 3-Assault Rider 15/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15
Karina was about to take off at the heartless halfheartedly once again but stopped when she felt something hit her behind followed by the feeling of burning. The ends of Karina's skirt soon caught ablaze causing Karina to panic for a second. She then did the logical thing to do, stop, drop and roll until the flames where out. For the most part no harm done, but her skirt was slightly shorter then before with it's ends frayed, but it still did it's job. Now why in the world did she wear a skirt into battle in the first place.... Well because it was in the picture she had for her appearance even though she only wore skirts when she had to back home. Soon a bit of relief came making her butt feel a lot better. Thankfully Stratos cast cure, he was a good teammate unlike whoever had sent the fire ball. Karina scanned the library quickly to see if she could find who it was who had sent it. Fist she saw Kel staring at her... maybe him? But the she saw Beuce slightly behind him. Beuce was staring intently while Kel on the other hand looked confused. Now that made a lot of sense. Karina pointed at Beuce then ran her finger across her neck while mouthing the words "I am going to kill you." But in order to kill him Karina needed to do two things first. One keep her mental state in check, which was questionable at this point. And two get through these heartless to get to Beuce. That one was possible but was going to be slow. Sure she was angry but in a depressive state like she was in at the time it was incredibly hard to motivate herself to do anything fast, even if she wanted to kill Beuce. It wasn't like that idea was knew to her. She wanted to kill him since they got to Central Haven, he just continually made it worse. Now it was time to work on taking out the assault rides, one fricken one at a time, because this battle wasn't already dragging on long enough as it was. Karina hopped on her glider and raced at an assault rider, just narrowly missing it's spear as she dodged. When close enough Karina figured she would leap at the heartless from the side to injure it. The moment Karina's feet left the glider it transformed back into a keyblade in her hand allowing her to swipe at the heartless on her way down. Karina then proceeded to slash at the heartless a number of times, taking a few hits herself but she relied on Aero to save her for now since she did not seem to have the energy to bother to move out of the way. Dodging attacks from enemies like this she needed a lot of speed, something she didn't have. A few times she would deflect the heartless's attack by attacking at the same time so they countered each other but besides that she didn't even guard. Karina was able to take the one heartless out before it could do too much damage to her. Karina then turned to the one behind it, jumping on it's spear as it tried to stab her. Jumping off of it directly after Karina jumped into the air and came down on the heartless with a simple Vorpal blitz. She then did a back flip off and landed on her feet behind the assault rider. She was about to make another move that would hopefully kill the heartless but Derpy would have none of that. Kicking her away Karina would have to return and finish the job later. Words: 621 Exp: 30 Total: 810 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 7/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 54/300 1-Assault Rider 5/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15
"Lieutenant I have called you this for years because that is what I was instructed by the director to call you when I first started working for you. So you sir just have to suck it up and deal with it...." Robyn said in a tone that was slightly like talking back. "Quinn." She added on at the end to hopefully appease him. Quinn then caught onto what she was doing, that was nothing knew, he had long learned her habit of doing stuff like that at any possible opportunity. She handed over her phone with a slight frown on her face, she didn't want to hand it over but she did know better than to keep it from him. After all he could fire her for not doing it, or simply take it by force. It didn't take much for Quinn to over power Robyn, she was quite weak, never paid much attention in basic combat training and hadn't fought since she was forced to in the academy. Once handing over her phone she seemingly rested her hand on her lap, but in reality she was grabbing a second phone and started to use it to hack another person. This time she wouldn't do anything to make them comment out loud, she didn't feel like Quinn should know she was doing it again right way. Letting the second phone rest on her lap Robyn took a sip of her coffee before starting to work on the reply to the director. Even though she was rarely serious when doing things directly related to her job, hacks she was asked to do, responding to emails, stuff like that she knew how to write and act professionally. She no longer relied on Quinn to tell her exactly what he wanted his notes to say, just giving her the basics was enough for her to fill in the blanks. Having been his assistant for two years now she knew around about what he might say and how he would word it. On top of that everyone knew it was his assistant sending the note, so she didn't have to be spot on with wording as long as the message got across. Sending off the complete message, Robyn put one hand 'back on her lap' and the other she used to pull up Mila's portfolio on her tablet. Robyn lay the tablet down on the table and spun it around to face Quinn. The portfolio included name, family, a picture, and her skill sets which she trained in at the academy, along with the year she graduated, which was just that last year in the latest batch out of school. Looking at the picture herself Robyn spoke up. "Oh I know who this is. She was a few years under me but I saw her around the academy. Really nice, super quiet but super skilled." She commented almost proud of what she knew, thinking back to the few times she had seen or spoken to the girl, remembering each event in great detail. Robyn then quieted down to let Quinn do his thing, look through the portfolio and whatever else he was going to do. She was in no rush for the tablet back, she was too busy digging up some random dirt on some random person in the coffee shop. A young girl walked through the streets of Potenza eventually getting to the main square. Standing in the middle of it she was silent but looked as if she were trying to prepare for something. The girl slowly brought her hand out of her coat pocket with some sort of small orb. Dropping it on the ground it made a loud almost explosion like sound but nothing that proved dangerous. "People of Potenza..." The girl started quiet and nervous. She had been quietly spreading rumors over the past few days but now it was time to tell everyone of what was happening. "This peaceful town is not as safe as it seems. Secret operations and illigal trade of humans is going on it the city, this is headed up by the Special forces themselves." Mila started to yell out to the crowd. "Yeah right!" "Go home you lunatic" "I am going to call the police!" Some of the comments that came from the crowd of people as Mila spoke. "No! Please listen! It is true." Mila cried out to them as she lifted her hand to move her hood away from her left eye which it currently covered. However before she did that she remembered a warning that a friend of hers she met outside the city gave . Lowering her hand Mila looked into the eyes of one of the woman who passed. "Please, you have to believe me...." She said in a quiet, yet desperate voice. Although even Mila knew that what she was saying was far fetched, she didn't blame any of these people for not believing her.
Karina could not stop herself from sobbing on the ground as the flames subsided around her and she was shaking. She didn't know how to handle anything anymore. She couldn't do this even though she had to, she couldn't even bring herself to move any more. She simply sat in the corner in tears while the heartless chased Stratos for a little while leaving her be. But that would only last so long. she knew that already. Heartless where dicks and loved to attack girls when they where down and having break downs. Dicks like that didn't deserve to be the end of her. No she would not let them kill her for no other reason them they where too much of dicks to deserve to take her life. Only a worthy opponent would be allowed to, perhaps even Aux... no Aux's leader would be more suitable. Or that was the theory of how she might die in her mind. Although if she didn't want these things to kill her, she would have to force herself to move. You can't expect to live by just sitting there, although Adan and Base where doing it. Either way she had to move. Stratos soon came by and cast aero and cure on Karina once again. Wiping the tears off her face she stood to her feet with some effort. She gave a quick nod to Stratos before running forward at the horde of heartless. Okay running was an over statement, more like walking somewhat quickly but not a motivated walk, just a sad pathetic attempt at moving quickly. Her arms hung loosely at her side barely gripping her keyblade. Karina eyed the weakest heartless in the area. There was nothing else she could take on in this state. She felt weak and drained even with Stratos's second cure she had no energy. It was most likely emotion stress draining her mentally which in turn felt like they where draining her physically, it made the most sense in this case. Time to fight sort of. Fight as in fling her keyblade around clumsily and hope that it actually hit something and kill it. With her strength it wasn't hard to kill something as long as she made contact with it a few times she should be able to kill it. Surprisingly it work with one of the Assault riders and one of the armored knight. But that was as far as Karina's luck, if that is what you would call it, went. She couldn't attack the small heartless anymore do to Derpy the Derpmoth appearing out of nowhere to hit Karina.... again. "Flying across the wall she smashed into a couple of bookshelves and fell to the ground. Karina staggered to her feet once more only to find Derpy beside her kicking her again. This time as she was about to hit the wall she twisted her body so she was able to plant her feet against the wall. Pushing off the wall she transformed her keyblade onto the a glider and landed on it taking off back towards Stratos. She knew that it would appear to kick one of them and the other could attack in that time. As she pulled up beside him and waited for Derpy to make his move Karina turned to Stratos. "Sorry...." She said quietly feeling guilty for making him have to deal with her this entire time. Suddenly Derpy appeared to kick, none other than Stratos, surprise surprise. As he kicked Stratos, Karina jumped off her glider and transformed it into a glider coming down on Derpy's head. "Hurry up and die. I just need this to be over and you aren't helping." Karina said to Derpy as she landed from her attack, followed up by casting cure on Stratos since she did just use him as bate. Words: 643 Exp: 30 Total: 780 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 88/300 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15
More heartless where aggroed. Of course they where. Why in the world would they leave them alone? It would be far to convenient to just let her kill what needs to be killed then go back to the smaller guys. Right now Derpy the Derpmoth needed to die because he was being fricken annoying. The way he did it was unfair and cheap and Karina hated it and wanted to put an end to that stupid behemoth before it caused more pain. The damn thing some how teleported around kicking them around constantly with a vacant stare in it's eyes the entire time. Was the thing possessed by a demon or something? Nothing made sense anymore and Karina didn't know how much more of this she could take. If she could she would murder everything. With all the anger and sadness Karina could not contain it any more. She burst into yellow flames and her hair stood up straight up on end as she let out a loud scream sending tremors through the entire area. Her attack got stronger and she got faster chasing after each of the heartless. An assault rider was her first victim. Karina took it out like it was nothing more then a shadow. Too bad she didn't get to fight any of the shadows in this fight because it would have been easier then some of the things that they had to face. There was nothing that was only one bp in there group and it sucked. Karina then jumped on an armored knight ripping it's head from it's body quickly ending it's life. However this is where it all ended for Karina, her body and mind couldn't take it any more. She fell to the ground in a messy heap of tears and blood. "I'm sorry... I am so sorry. I can't do this... every one's blood will be on my hands because I am so damn weak and stupid. What is wrong with me?" Karina sobbed letting some of the heartless attack her and slowly start to kill her, but slow was definitely the right word to use since aero was blocking half the damage. that the heartless where doing. "Just kill me now..." She said seemingly giving up on life, not caring anymore what happened to her. Stratos would have to finish the battle on his own, which was unfair but Karina didn't know how she would carry on with it in her condition. Finally Aero broke and Karina was vulnerable for the heartless to kill. Two or three more aggroed onto her at this time. She was slowly fading, and in pain as the heartless tried to finish her off. But suddenly the hits stopped and Karina was in mid air. Damn Marahute used it's last save on her for some reason. Karina didn't deserve that and was hoping Stratos would use it not her, she could just die. Marahute dropped her off somewhere away from the heartless before leaving, seeing her job was complete. Karina quickly collapsed to the ground again still crying, this time instead of small heartless attacking her Derpy appeared getting ready to kick. She interrupted it's kick however, grabbing it's toe as yellow flames and tremors filled the area again. Karina picked up the behemoth and threw it across the room knocking it into another assault rider. "Not now dick!" She screamed out at the behemoth. She was ready to let heartless kill her but not that one, that one was a dick and wasn't deserving of taking Karina's life. Any heartless but that heartless could. Words:600 Exp: 30 Total: 750 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 54/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 127/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15 10-Assault Rider 15/15
Five armored knights remained aggroed onto Stratos, Karina could handle that, there was only five, all injured after all. Maybe eventually she would get somewhere with lowering the aggroed amount of heartless on Stratos before he aggroed more. Or that was the theory. She would have been further ahead if he had not been doing as much as he was before anyone else could do a damn thing, hording all the experience that they got from this battle to himself even though he wasn't doing a damn thing to kill all the little heartless. He was just aggroing all the heartless and getting experience for it, how the hell did that work. Karina was the one that had to follow behind killing everything and actually fighting, not just get kicked into things and then say he actually did something and get stronger from it. This entire battle was screwed up and a lot longer then it should be. How long would it take for a couple people to fix that portal thing? At this rate they would have to kill everything before the portal worked. Sure Karina had originally planned to stay and fight herself anyways but she was planning on doing a bunch of off screen fighting and then just see if she survived, but if it was just her probably not. This kind of fight was not what she had in mind. Plus it didn't help that Adan and Base were literally just standing their not doing a damn thing to help. Karina let out a huge sigh as she ran after an armored knight with no ambition at all. Why was she doing this? She really didn't want to do this anymore, but she had to, and thus her attacks lacked motivation and enthusiasm. She was getting tire, physically and emotionally, but she couldn't take a break, none of them could, unless they wanted to die. Although at this rate that thought was almost sounding pleasant. But the reason she was doing this was not for her own life, it was for the lives of those around her. Karina couldn't stand the thought of their blood being on her hands, she was not going to be the cause of peoples deaths, nor would she sit around and watch anyone die. She had showed that after the Aux fight, forcing herself to her feet just barely to try to protect or help Hikaru, though to no avail. "This is for everyone Aux hurt, for every innocent girl they kidnapped. He is the cause of this mess, why can't I be fighting him? Guess his heartless lackeys are the next best thing." Karina's voice was in a low almost growl as she attacked the first armored knight taking it out swiftly. The next one proved to be no more of a problem then the first, and though Karina didn't have her original flair she had before her breakdown she still maintained her strength and could keep going with the fighting. Three four and five did not take much effort either. All of the remaining armored knights that where aggroed onto Stratos had been taken out simply with a variation of different basic attacks and combo's. Karina was not up to doing anything fancy. She just wanted to get the job done. Now that those where dealt with Karina... oh are you kidding me. Out of no where Derpy the Derpmoth appeared behind Karina once again kicking her. Man was she ever thankful for the Aero that Stratos cast on her now. Hopping on her keyblade glider, Karina prepared for an attack. She stood backwards on her glider so it it came up behind her she would just push off her glider and let it hit the Behemoth, but if it appeared behind the glider then she would go after it with her bare hands. With her strength that wasn't that difficult. Despite all her planning Derpy decided to screw it over and come up beside her kicking her, but she still managed to jump from the glider and grab onto its horn. She then swung herself so she stood on it's head. Karina then proceeded to make a series of punches down at it until it disappeared once again but this time to go back after Stratos, leaving her be. She had not pissed it off nearly as much as he had. Words: 733 Exp: 30 Total: 720 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 53/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 143/300 1-Assault Rider 14/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15
Karina was getting all the more frustrated with every heartless that Stratos aggroed. She was having trouble keeping up destroying them. She would have liked to kill all the heartless before more were aggroed, save for Derpy the Derpmoth, She wanted to take out the armored knights and assault riders first, but it would have been better if they where not previously aggroed and constantly running from her. Stratos idea was for her to chase them down and tackle them to the ground in order for her get a chance to fight them at all. It was a pain in the butt that was what it was. Karina was just getting ever more annoyed at everything and everyone as her thoughts became more dark and she found more things to annoy her for no other reason then she was just pissy like that. It was time for Karina to to bs her way though another battle using cheap tactics against heartless that could use even more cheap tactics when they felt like being dicks.This was getting tedious now. Well not just now it always had been but these thoughts were used for mostly filler for the battle because she needed more words in the post to get stronger. Also she needed to save Stratos butt in case I have not reinterated that enough yet because it needs to be apparently. Anyways it is time to go back to the actual battle post thing cause that is supposed to happen at some point and 6 heartless will die in it... oops spoilers. Karina rushed forward after the internal monologue type thing finished. She started by going after the heartless that she nearly took out last time but wasn't able to by very little because that was a piss off and unfair. Her teeth where clenched as she cast magnify on herself and attacked the heartless, because she totally needed the extra power to kill it with the minimal health it had. Now it was time for some of the other ones that where aggroed by the brilliant fabulous genius.... okay none of that Stratos. A strike raid took out one heartless, then post filler, then she used a barrier surge to take out another. That was armored knight one and four killed. Now that she was started she ain't going to stop because she was not afraid of the storm that came her way. She is gonna turn it up till it gets to hot. And what she meant by that was she was going to use a fire strike on another heartless. Karina jumped up in the air. "When it hit's it will knock you to the ground." She sang out before coming down between two heartless in a aerial slam causing a tremor to rumble through the floor knocking the heartless to the ground. "Survival is a must so Stratos will you stand with us?" Karina then picked the two heartless up and smashed their heads into each other. She then turned and finished them off by stabbing both of the. Bye bye two and three. That just left six and seven. They would be easy because she was bored and didn't feel like being all epic in killing them. All Karina did was walk up to six and stab it before walking to seven and using a barrier surge on it. It was quick easy and got the job done. But wait Karina was not done yet, not if Derpy the Derpmoth had anything to say about it. It seemed to her that he didn't like her song references. Appearing behind her, he kicked her across the room. Karina hopped on her keyblade and raced towards the behemoth who was soon gone again and reappeared behind her. "Not this time." She said as she leaped up above Derpy and landed on it's head punching him dealing an entire three damage. Suddenly the solid mass beneath her disappeared and reappeared behind her, kicking her across the room once again. "Ow. What the hell." She groaned. See this was exactly what she was talking about by cheap battle tactics when the heartless wanted to be dicks. Words: 697 Exp: 30 Total: 690 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 43/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 162/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 2-Armored Knight 4/5 3-Armored Knight 4/5 4-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 14/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15
Karina grit her teeth at Stratos's excuse. It wasn't just that he had an angry mob following, she was well aware that that had been the behemoth's fault. It was that he had angered the behemoth and got that following him angering other heartless that was annoying her. "I know the Behemoth is throwing you into angry mobs of heartless, but who angered the Behemoth huh? When I said widdle down their health earlier, I mean it a way it wouldn't notice us or care too much for the time being, not go all out on the first hit. That is simply a death wish." It was around this time that Reluctancy began to ware off. "Just try not to get yourself killed. I can only take out these other heartless so fast." Karina instructed with a sigh. Karina had through about taking the rest of the armored knights out first, quick and easy, then go for the big guys, the assault riders. However this plan changed with the fact that Stratos angered more armored knights and taking them out would no longer be so quick. She decided a better course of action was to take out at least one of the big guys, get that off his back then go back and work on the smaller ones. It was really a toss up between killing the ones that hurt more or taking out the smaller ones that didn't hurt as much but there was more of them to do damage, so she decided to split it. She had taken on a bunch of armored knights before, now she would take out an assault rider and perhaps one extra armored knight, and then she she would take out the rest of the armored knights before focusing on the assault riders once again. Charging forward Karina attacked a assault rider, meeting it's attack and deflecting both. They where faster then they appeared to be, but Karina was stronger, she would win this fight no sweat. Karina jumped up and sent her keyblade flying down at it in a strike raid, hitting it's back. The heartless tried to stab up at Karina but she was smart enough to use barrier surge to get out of the way and not a second too soon. She had missed the blow by no more then a centimeter. Karina proceeded to use a poison edge, followed up by an aerial slam. Now she would let the poison do the rest, but in the mean time keep it distracted and angered onto her by simply dodging every one of it's attacks. She started to jump left and right, occasionally up to avoid the spear. Only once did she need to block the heartless with her keyblade. Each attack the heartless threw got weaker as the heartless began to stumble. Karina stood and watched as the heartless die, letting it's spear land a few centimeters from her neck before it disappeared with the heartless. That attack was a close call, and any normal person would have got out of the way, but not Karina, she simply stood there barely blinking. Once the assault rider was dead she walked away to take out a armored knight. Cracking her knuckles she walked up to a group of two. The first one she ran up and basic attacked several times, throwing flips and other fancy moves in to make it look a lot more cool. She then ran back slashing the other heartless on her way by. With both of them injured a little more Karina prepared to throw her keyblade as if it where a boomerang once again. As it flew through the air it killed the first one no problem. However when it hit the second heartless it did not fall. Karina was disappointed in herself for not being able to take out both of them, but she needed to take time to breath for a moment before she jumped back into the battle. Words: 665 Exp: 30 Total: 660 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 43/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 190/300 1-Armored Knight 1/5 2-Armored Knight 4/5 3-Armored Knight 4/5 4-Armored Knight 4/5 5-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 14/15
Karina was going to yell at Stratos and tell him how bad of an idea he had was, but he flew away before she could. "You have a death wish kid." Karina sighed shaking her head at Stratos, Nothing she could do now but save his butt over and over and over again, while Derp the Dermoth kicked Stratos around some more just for fun. It was weird and annoying that it kept doing that to Stratos, but part of Karina told her that he deserved it, he had pissed something off that he shouldn't. The Behemoths where threatening, they learned that last one they fought so Karina figured that they should be careful in attacking to keep the behemoth from getting too angered. Stratos obviously didn't have the same thought processes, he probably went all out on it. "Okay I guess I should actually fight." She said as she ran after the horde that chased Stratos. She would pick them off one by one from the back. The same idea as before selecting the weakest ones and kill them first one by one. Looking at the heartless she started to estimate how many she could take out this time. It was going to be less then before due to the fact that these heartless although not that strong would take more to take out, they would hit harder and take an extra hit or two to kill. So considering that she could probably only kill about seven, still that would bring their numbers down significantly, help Stratos a lot... well that was until he aggroed more, which due to the way that Derpy was acting was going to happen undoubtedly. Geez this was annoying and on top of that stronger heartless had been aggroed, only two but there would be more before she could take out those two, that went without saying looking at the pace things where going. Karina had caught up to the heartless that was furthest behind, she leaped at it and brought it down. She then stabbed it in the neck with her keyblade swiftly killing it. from there she got up and kept running, A strike raid was her next form of attack. It injured two of the heartless but didn't kill them, she would have to remedy that later when she caught up better. But catching up was the problem wasn't it. The next move was to turn her keyblade into a glider and race after them. It only took her a few seconds in order to catch up the the two that she injured, Karina jumped off her glider and pushed both the heartless to the ground. Standing up she summoned her keyblade to her in order to take the heartless she brought down out. No matter what her strength was it ended up relying on her keyblade for the best way of killing heartless. She stabbed down at each of them. That was three down but four still remained that she had to catch. The heartless started to slow down giving Karina a chance to catch up to them. Karina used poison edge on one as she ran by to attack the next one. A barrier surge closed the gap and did away with most of the remaining health of another heartless. A quick stab was used to finish the job off. The one that had been poisoned also fell. That left two. A fire strike took out the next one. That left one with slightly more health. Karina thought about how she might kill it and decided to go over kill. Karina started by casting magnify on herself before casting gravity on the heartless so she could take it out using a vorpal Blitz. Once all the heartless where going to take care of Karina cast reluctancey on everything so she could walk up to Stratos without being inturupted. "You idiot!" She smacked him across the face. You couldn't learn after defeating that last behemoth not to piss them off, now look what you have gotten yourself into. Are you asking to die. Be more careful kid." She then proceeded to cast cure on Stratos. As she turned a way the only thought that ran through her mind was not a pleasant one. "Like I can talk, I should be saying anything after what I pulled with the last behemoth battle." Karina began to let her beat herself up internally with negative thoughts similar to that, she just wouldn't show it. Words: 751 Exp: 30 Total: 630 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 43/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 205/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 2-Armored Knight 4/5 3-Armored Knight 4/5 4-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 14/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15
